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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-28
The Fireside Saint.

Doubtless the memory of each one of
us will furnish the picture of some
member of a family whose very pres
ence seems to shed happiness; a daugh-
ter, perhaps, whose light step even in
the distance irradiated every one's
countenance. What had she done?
Absolutely nothing; but radiant smiles,
beaming good humor, the tact of doing
what every one wanted told that she
had gotten out of self and learned TO
think for others, so that at one time it
showed itself in deprecating the quarrel,
which lowering brows and raised tones
already showed to be impending, by
sweet words; at another, by smoothing
an invalid's pillow; at another, by HUI
moring and softening father who had
returned weary and ill-tempered from
the irritating cares of business. None
but she saw those things, none but a
loving heart could see. That was the
secret of her heavenly power.-Rev.
Frederick Robertson.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-28
Key West.

The key has about as much shape as
camel, and in general way lies east
and west and contains about six square
miles. 1t is as flat as shingle, the high
est point being about fourteen feet
above the mean sea level. To the cas-
ual visitor it looks as though the sea,
particularly in storm, would submerge
this insignificant rise, but it is matter
of record that it never has done it. The
city proper covers the western end of
the key, and it was, previous to the
great fire of March 30, 1886, very
densely settled and about as un-Ameri-
can looking as could well be imagined,
bearing strong resemblance to West
India town. The houses are of wood
and quite plainly built. There are, |
think, only four or five brick buildings,
and certainly not more than six. The
streets are of very good width, toler-
ably straight and passably clean. The
roadway is coral rock. There is no soil
to speak of; what passes for soil is
triturated coral, very rich in phosphates
and making an excellent fertilizer, but
by itself deficient in fat. To garden
one must use pick rather than hoe.
Very few vegetables are grown here,
and vegetation is confined mainly to
cocoanut trees. Here and there can be
seen pine or an Alexander, or star
of India, or a royal poncana, few null
berry and prickly-ash trees and pope
mack bushes. Flowers and Towering
shrubs grow in abundance.-RO Rochester
Post EGpreSS.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-28
Know Thyself.

We are as slow to perceive our own
greatest defects as we are to discern our
neighbours smallest ones. Glaring faults,
which would make a neighbor hateful
to us, are suffered to have full play in
our natures, without disturbing our self
complacency. Commonly, we do not
know that we have these faults. Per-
haps we count ourselves peculiarly free
from them. Many stingy man thinks
that generosity is an amiable weakness
of his. Many an affected woman is
sure that naturalness is her chief attrac-
ton. Some whose words are most apt
to sting their acquaintance are the
very persons who count themselves
considerate and kindly in speech. The
ones who absolutely live for self are
not uncommonly the ones who think
that self has small place in their
thoughts and plans. AT the worst,
when the beam in ones own eye is
recognized it is usually looked at as a
part of ones self, and therefore to be
accepted as a matter of course, for "we
must be ourselves, you knowl" And
all the while this beam in our eye never
hinders our seeing and magnifying
and wondering over the unsightly mote
in the eye of our neighbor.-H. Clay
TrumbuU, ID. ID.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-28
Christian Living.

The greatest want of the world is not
more, but better, Christians. A man
saved from sin is an unanswerable ar
gument which the unsaved are sure to
read and respect. They are slow to
hear gospel preaching but swift to APP
preciate gospel living The chief OBJ
stacle to successful preaching is the
glaring failures in Christian living.
The pastor who does most to make
Christians holy also does most to con-
vince and save unbelievers. The I'M
godly may avoid his ministries but will
read his sermons in the people who
practice them. The way to reach the
masses is to send saved men and women
among them. Denizens of highways
and by-ways that shun the churches
will be saved, when Giving epistles ="
are scattered among them. The living
as well as the preaching must begin
with the pastor. He must be in adj
vance of his wisest and hottest hearers
or he cannot lead them. His sermons
will be stale and poweress unless they
are first wrought into his own spiritual
life. Eccentricities, show, rhetoric,
religious stimulants can never furnish
substitute for gospel in the sermon
and godliness in the life. Attracting
or amusing is not saving. A large con-
gregation is no certain measure OF
success. He breaches best and reaps
most who makes most Christly men
His sermons are multiplied and en-.
forced by righteous men and women
Morning Star.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-28
Doing His viii.

Christ seized the true ideal of life:
1Ce ought to seize it--for only so can we
finish the work God has given us to do.
He showed us what that ideal is when
he was at the well in Sychar Even
his disciples " wondered that he talked
with the woman and when they
asked if any one had brought him
bread to eat, he answered, My meat
is to do the will of him who sent me,
and to finish his work" Because he
received into his life the true ideal was
the kind of life he lived possible, and
just in proportion as we take into our
lives a similar ideal will, in some meas
ure at least, our lives bloom into the
triumphant finishing. Oh, friends, what
organization and what rest would come
into our lives if we made that the domi-
nant thought for them, that we do Gods
will! / remember how, back in the
dim memories of my boyhood, there
shines the vision of as sweet and Sc
rene life as a child ever lived-the Wis
ion of my sister, who died 80 long ago
that / can hardly remember her. When
/ think of her | seem to see light in
the home there, for she had a wonder
full nature; she set herself to do not
her own will, but simply the will of
father and mother. And so there was
never any question, nor any bother,
nor any harassment, as far as she
was concerned-simply doing their will,
that was all. And so, if we would take
into our lives the purpose of doing the
Heavenly Fathers will as best we can,
our lives would be all sweetness. What
deliverance from perpleXing questions
there would be. How often we set our
selves at marshaling reasons for doing
things which we are quite sure is not
Gods will that we should do, or seek
ing to find some reason for hard feeling
towards some brother; or why we
should not do some unwelcome task.
We are quite sure it is the will of God
that we should do the duty and we
thrust ourselves into the strain of con-
tention within ourselves and turn our
hearts into debating-rooms-w than
that, into battle-felds. We are not at
peace. Have l not described your own
case many a time? think ! must have
done so, since have described my own.
Into what certainty we pass immedi-
ately when, stopping augmentation
we simply do Gods will. Wdyldnd
Hoyt, DID,, IN Words and Weapons.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-28
Commend the Good.

Everybody is busy finding fault, and
few take time to notice the deeds that
are praiseworthy. The practice is not
only sinful in itself, but promotes other
sins; for many a man will expend so
much consciousness upon the severe
condemnation of others faults that he
has not enough left for his own-nay
will even think that, having passed
merited condemnation upon wrong
doing in others, he is more at liberty to
do wrong himself. We ought to judge
ourselves strictly and judge others
leniently. A Roman writer states it
well: 81 think him best and most
faultless who pardons others as if he
himself sinned every day; yet who alb
stains from sin, as if he pardoned nc
One.n
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-28

greater than it can be expressed by the
words " how much more," we may
have all calmness and confidence, for
the loving earthly parent is more will
ing to give than the child is to ask,
more willing to give than not to give,
impatient even for the coming of the
opportunity when he may give. What
would be the JOY and peace of our sea-
sons of prayer, and indeed of all our
Christian living, if we fully realized
and believed the truth of these words
of Jesus in all the depth of their mean
ingl-President Timothy Dwight.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-28
Gods Willingness to Bless.

If God loves his child more than the
earthly father loves his child, and if he
is more ready than the earthly father
to give good gifts we may be sure that
he has not fettered himself by his own
laws or so shut himself out from the
creation that he cannot do anything for
his children when they come to him in
prayer. This thought is one of the
most precious of all which are presented
in the New Testament. If God is more
willing to bless us than earthly parents
are, if his willingness is even so far
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-28
Moral ano Religious.
GrandmOther's Bible.


So you've brought me this costly Bible,
with its covers so grand and gay,
You thought I must need n new one
On my eighty first birthday, you say.
Yes, mine is a worn-out volume.
Grown ragged and yellow with age,
With fnger-prints thick on the margin;
But there's never a missing page.
And the finger-prints call back my wee ones,
just learning verse to repeat;
And again, in the twilight, their faces
Look up to me eagerly sweet.
1t has pencimarks pointing i'm silence
To words have hid in my heart;
And the lesson so hard In the learning,
Once learned, can never depart.
Your gift is a beauty, my dearie,
With its wonderful clasps of gold;
Put 1t carefully into the drawer,
shall keep 1t till death; but the old
Just leave it close by on the table,
And then you may bring me a light,
And I'll read a sweet psalm from its pages
To think of IL wakeful tonight.
london Christian
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-28
Freely Gives.

Jesus Christ did not mean that his
followers may have whatever they like.
The way to spoil child is to give it
all it asks; and he does not mean to
spoil us. Therefore he must thwart
our wishes till they run parallel with
his will and are fixed on higher good
than earth holds. So, of course, this
promise is true only in the spiritual
realm, Or in regard to the development
of the Christian character. We may
have as much of God as we will. Christ
puts the key of the treasure chamber
into our hand and bids us take all that
we want. If man is admitted into
the bullion vault of bank and told to
help himself, and comes out with one
cent, whose fault is it that he is poor?
Whose fault is it that Christian people
generally have such scanty portions of
the free riches of Coda leTander
McLdren, d.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-28
The FatherhOOd of God.

The child-relationship of the loving,
trustful man to God. as an infinitely
loving Father, is the first and great rev.
citation which Christianity makes to its
disciples. The Golden Rule is the an
swer of the Christian teaching to the
question, How shall 1 act towards my
neighbor? Jesus makes the revelation
he also gives the answer. AS he does
so he leads the child to his Father and
teaches him the lesson of love. The
fatherhood of God secures the brother
hood of man, and both together secure
the consummated blessedness of the
kingdom of eaven.-DWigM.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-28
Forgiveness Free.


Do any honestly want pardon? Have
they sincerely asked for it? Then they
are pardoned. No one can honestly
utter the Lords Prayer without being
pardoned. No one can honestly use
that prayer who is not penitent, and
any impenitent person who offers that
prayer is a hypocrite. This makes a
joyful, but also a solemn, thing of so
brief prayer as the Lords Prayer.
To earnest seekers who go to work in
the right way heavens door swings
open easily. Like the ponderous doors
of vault, so is heavens door. No
amount of battering will open it. But
with the right key it swings open so
easily that a boy can enter. All hell
cannot prevail against heavens gate ;
but let child offer an earnest prayer,
and, lol the pearly gate swings on its
hinges and stands wide open to well
come the child.-A. r. !Schdutier, DID,.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-28

MOTHERS of America declare en-
phatically of Lactated Food that it is
the best, most economical and palatable
baby and invalid food sold. Cows milk
usually contains too much of the cheesy
principle to be digested by the infant
stomach. Use instead this mothers
favorite.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-28

Mrs. JOSEPH BAKER of Johnson, VT,
was greatly afflicted with phthisic for
twenty years and was pronounced by
physicians as incurable. Two bottles
of WIsTAR's BALsAM OF WILD CHERRY
afforded her much relief and five COM
pletely cured her.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-28
Qu33le Corner.
1.--WOrd- Square.

1---Word-Square.
In winter drear
We often hear
The children first repeating;
When old friends meet
Upon the street
This is their friendly greeting.
Far, far away
SO travellers say
The nerf, noble river,
In its wild glee
To reach the sea
Goes flowing flowing ever.
The third will show
A name you know;
IT'S neither Kate nor Hettie,
Nor Flo nor May,
Nor Blanche, I'll say,
Nor Fan nor Bess nor Nettie.
with solemn face
And want Of grace
The mule, that being lowly,
Still plods along
Amid the throng,
The fourth he's drawing slowly
These words arrange,
Nor think It strange
If, after you have got 'em,
A perfect square
Confronts you there.
Complete from top to bottom. ETHYL.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-28
Central Vermont Railroad.
Commencing Nov. |, 1886.

Commencing Nov. /, 1886.
Trains Going South win Leave Montpelier
as follows:
9:O3 A. M. MAIL N1.Ilt,.t from St Adams and
chester, Nashua, Worcester, Lowell, Ftchburg, Bos
ton Springfield New London and New York.
1925 M Sns fSs %nsrss
Boston, via Lowell, and New York via Springfield and
New London. Pullman Drawing Room Car to Bos-
ton via Lowell and New York via Springfield.
$40 p M faA %Ets H1sf G @ns St Adams
1910 A. M N MG5ITg. E Slasn.Ssrg T s%a
the West for Boston via Lowell and all points In New
Trains Going North and West:
$50 A. NIGH and E SaT yss from ToT M sO
treal, Ogdensburg and the West. Sleeping Car to
6:25 A. M. ACCOMMODATIONS Ssn, to St. Al
1920 A. M R1ss SSdsn from fo4 bu Mhass
ton, st. Adams and Richford.
3:45P. M. PASSENGER, for Burling.
densburg and the West. Drawing Room Car to st.
Adams
ZOO p M FAST FAST EXPRESS 1s Pullman
Trains leave for Barre at 1900 A. NJ, 9: 80 A. n.
and 4: 10 =. NJ
Through tickets to Chicago and all points West for
j. w. HOBART. General Manager.
S. w. CUMMINGS. General Passenger Agent.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-28

To count the annual drink-bill of the
United States in dollars would take one
person, working day and night, seven
teen years. -EGchdnge.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-28
Prize for Puzzles.

For the best original puzzle offered
for this department before October 10
a collection of winter and spring flower
ing bulbs is offered.
Puzzles should be addressed to Edi-
tor of WATCHMAN Puzzle Corner, East
Sumner, Maine.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-28

EVERYTHING which belongs to pure,
healthy blood is impaired by Hoods
Sarsaparilla. A trial will convince you
of its merit.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-28

HELP myself and God will help
thee.-George Herbert.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-28

To enjoy good health aim to always
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DIR. Bulls Baby Syrup will greatly as
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To equalize the circulation of the
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-28

3---A Thing of Beauty.
A thing of beauty am called,
And people at me gaze;
The sun gives me my color bright
In summers balmy days.
Curtail me twice, am verb,
And mean to gush along,
Fen as a river in its course
Impelled by current strong.
Transpose this verb and you will see
What's in the farm.yard found,
Or sailing DER the ocean blue,
Or walking on the ground.
And now arrange them as at first,
Excepting those two tails,
Behead then, and the word tells how,
In storms, ships carry sails.
Transpose this word and have bird
That hides among the trees,
His face is whimsically wise
And in the night he sees. Carroll.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-28
RHEUMATISM AND CATARRH
Are Conquered By
DR.. ]. @. A. Packers Remedy
r cum a tiSm
AND
Catarrh.

This vegetable compound has
been successfully used in pri-
vate practice by its discoverer
for several years, and being
convinced of its sterling merit
he places it before the public.
1t is an infallible cure for the
most aggravated forms of Rheu-
matism and gives permanent
sps of Catarrh.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-28
4...Enigma.

4-..Enigma.
Composed of 16 letters.)
My II IA 2 is pink tint.
My 10 II 16 we have in the sum-
mer.
My II 10 6 is freedom from con-
fusion.
My 10 s 8 3 3 is to follow.
My 2 z 16 IA is part of the body.
The whole occurred in 1887. OzRo.
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Relief Soon Found.

Relief Soon Found.
NORTH MONTPELIER, Vt, Sept. %, 1856.
DIR. PACKER: Dear Sir-Before taking your Rem
edy for Rheumatism and Catarrh l afflicted
with catarrh and rheumatism Much of the time
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After taking your medicine found relief, and
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Cured a Man Eighty Years Old.
SOUTH CABOT VT, March 8, 1886.
DIR. PACKER: Dear Sir-In August and Septem-
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old. then sent for your Rheumatic and Catarrh
Medicine. Took two bottles and 1t gave me appetite
and strength. Rheumatism and catarrh have left
me, for which am thankful
Yours cordially. MOSES CLARK.
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your druggist FOR circular containing others which
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Price. 81 per bottle. Sold by Druggists.
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Marshfield, Vermont.
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2---TranspOsitiOn.
Sa eth wigt 81 tneb het eret 81 del
cenni. ORIGEN NELL.
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DR.. j. @. A. PACKER, Proprietor,
Marshfield, Vermont.
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Cured a Man Eighty Years Old.

Price. 81 per bottle. Sold by Druggists.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-12-23
Fire.

P1TTsBURG, December 22.-Fjre broke
out in the millinery and furnishing
store of Freshman & Co., early this
morning, The flames had gained con
siderable headway when discovered and
before they could be controlled. the
double story structure, together with
an adjoining fve-story building OF
Yeager & Co., toy dealers, we're com
pletely Quilted. During the progress of
the fire, two tremen were buried under
falling floor and were severely burned
and bruised. Ward, another fireman
was overcome by smoke and fell from a
ladder. His condition is serious. Total
loss, 5000 600; insurance, 1925 ,O0Q The
fire is supposed to have caught from Il
lighted cigar stump.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-12-23
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS.
Miscellaneous News From
All Over.
THE CROWN PRINCES THROAT.
Mexican MiDts-Fire-A Draw sad
for Ensenada-1hOse Russian
TrOops-1ther Notes.
THE CROWN PRINCES THROAT
The Princes Throat .

Vienna. December % "A dispatch To
the Neu Fret Press, from Milan. says
that on the advice of English pbysi
clans, the German Crown Princes neck
has been cupped, ana Doctor Krause SIS
having the blood thus obtained an
alyzed at laboratory, in order to ascer-
tain whether it contains an excess of
sugar, or whether it is in a healthy
state. II it proves to contain too much
sugar, the physicians will decide to
adopt the trrarmeDt advised by DR..
Freund, of Vienna which has in view Il
reduction of the sugar in the blood to
its normal quantity.
BERLIN, December 22.-The TdgbLGtt
says that DR.. Telschow, court dentist,
who went to San Reno to operate on
the Crown Prince teeth, has returned
to ;erlin and reports a most favorable
improvement in the Princes appear
ance and also in his voice which is
stronger and clearer. He says the
Crown Prince requ sted him 10 widely
circulate this report, IN order to coun
teract The unfaYorabie rumors that have
been published regarding his condition
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-12-23
Worth Knowing.

Mr. ". II. Morgan, merchant, Lake
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attended with distressing Cough and
running into Consumption in its first
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lar cough remedies and steadily grew
worse. Was reduced in flesh, had diff
Guilty in breathing and was unable 10
sleep. Finally tried DR.. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption and found
immediate relief, and after using
about half dozen bottles found himself
we'll and has had no return of the dis
ease. No other remedy can show so
grand record Of cures, as DIR. King g
New Discovery for Consumption. Guar
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Trial bottle free at a. G. Smith & Co.'S.
Drug SfoeA
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-12-23
Mexican MINIS.

CITY OF MEXICO, December CIT is
reported that the government, which
has given notice to all mint contractor:
that they must turn over the minis II
four months to duly appointed repre-
sentatives of the treasury, who Will run
the minis itself, thus eff citing large
annual saving. Mining circles are agl-
tated over the rumo- that duty on ex
ported ores will be levied, in order to
protect domestic reduction works
which under the new plan are 10 be
aided by government with cash capital
government taking as security a mort
gage on the reduction works.
Engineers who have been making @
preliminary survey for the inter-oce.
anic railway from Vera Cruz to AGA
pulcO, report that practicable routes OF
not over heavy grades have been found.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-12-23
.Renews Her Youth.

Mrs. Phoebe Chesley, Peterson. Clay
County, Iowa, tells the following re-
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free from all pain and soreness, and am
able to do all my own housework.
owe nay thanks to Electric Bitters for
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a bottle. 80 cents and 81 st A. G. Smith
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